I write you this. "I write to you that God will keep his promise and do what is right by forgiving your sins. But you must not take this as permission to sin, because you must not sin! Instead, you must try to be holy!" It is a paradox that the Christian lives in confident desperation! John speaks of two kinds of sin (1 John 5:16-17). Even though a Christian is set free from sin and put right with God through the imputed righteousness of Christ (Romans 8:1-4), still he must continually be at war with his (her) human nature (2 Peter 1:10; 2 Peter 3:17). See the Introduction to this Letter. My Children. John writes with the love of a father to his children. But if anyone does sin. In the first chapter John shows that no Christian is completely without sin. Our sin is rebellion against God! But if we do sin, betrayed by our weak human nature, there is a way for Christians to be forgiven! Who pleads for us. Christ is our Helper, the Holy Spirit is another Helper! Both plead with God for us (Romans 8:26), but only Jesus brings God and men together as a mediator (1 Timothy 2:5).

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